Campus Communique: Outcries of Dissent

The pulse of protest quickened on
U.S. campuses last week. Some old issues took new turns. Black Power,
for example, increasingly involved black athletes and black campus
workers. Anti-war demonstrators focused on military research. At the
same time, administrators seemed more assured and rational in
containing student unrest without violence. Items:

> At M.I.T. the issue was the November Action Coalition's demand that
military research be canceled at two off-campus laboratories and the
Center for International Studies (TIME, Nov. 7). Relying on law rather
than force, M.I.T. President Howard W. Johnson...